Zoo Portrait: Craig, the Highland bull

Highland bulls, unsurprisingly, originated in the Highlands of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides. They have since been exported around their world, and are now primarily bred for their meat.

They have an unusual double coat of hair, which enables them to survive the wet and windy Scottish weather. Their skill in foraging for food allows them to survive in steep mountain areas where they both graze and eat plants that many other cattle avoid. They can dig through the snow with their horns to find buried plants.

About Yago, the artist:

Yago Partal (b. 1982, Barcelona) lives and works in Barcelona.

He creates his anthropomorphic images through a painstaking combination of photography, illustration and collage. His intention (in humanising animals) is to make us look again, to see them as "one of us" and not something to be exploited or endangered.

Yago has returned to university to study his passion, zoology. The sales from the Zoo Portraits have enabled him to support a number of wildlife charities over the years, and to work with children to educate the next generation about animal conservation.

Yago Partal is represented by Subject Matter Art, an online fine art gallery based in London. For any questions about his work, please contact kitty@subjectmatterart.com.

This artwork is:

Limited edition I Signed by the artist I Printed on archival inks and paper